What Did You Say? (7)
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS (403)
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Like a few million other people I recently bought an iPhone 3G. But unlike a few million other people I bought TWO of them -- one for my young and lovely wife. That puts me in the rare position to actually speak from experience about a current networking issue: what's the deal with these iPhones? Is it the phone or the network that is causing problems? And the answer is: both. Our experience with the ...
Hit Man Email Scammer Back With a Vengeance (5)
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coondoggie writes "The online Hitman scammer, who threatens to kill recipients if they do not pay thousands of dollars to the sender, is still sending out thousands of emails and the FBI is again today warning users to ignore the spam and report any incidents to the Internet Crime Complaint Center. Two new versions of the scheme began appearing in July 2008, the FBI said. One instructed the recipient to contact a telephone number contained ...
DS Web: Squeak Sixteen (4)
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Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens (296)
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Your ad could be here, right now.
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Divino said:
É triste, porém é fato.
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Jaron said:
I dig the 'used against you' part especially. It's one of the factors distinguishing my 4-star and 5-star iTunes playlists.
Ouch: Bloomberg Mistakenly Publishes Steve Jobs’ Obituary (15)
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Although it’s probably the worst mistake you can make as a journalist, it periodically happens to big media publications. Earlier today, Bloomberg sent a 17-page obituary of Steve Jobs over the wire, quickly retracting it with the following message: “An incomplete story referencing Apple Inc. was inadvertently published by Bloomberg News at 4:27 p.m. New York time today. The item was never meant for publication and has been retracted.” There’s nothing much to be said ...
State of the Art - New Nikon Holds a Secret - NYTimes.com (6)
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The Nikon D90 camera, arriving in stores next month, has the features and performance of a single-lens reflex, and can record high-definition video.
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Jaron said:
Audio is mono.
Fruit Friendly Lunchbox (1)
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I totally need this. I bring a peach or nectarine with my brown bag lunch and invariably the things are mashed lumps by the time lunchtime rolls around. This container protects your fruit from being bruised in one handy container with your delicious turkey on wheat. |via SwissMiss|
OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan's Hardware Lovechild (8)
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In November of 2005, Nicholas Negroponte and his OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen traveled to Tunisia for the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, where they were able to present a "working" $100 laptop concept to Kofi Annan, UN secretary general. No longer did the machine rely on that pop-up rear-projection display; it was smaller, made of green plastic, and had a crank for the kids to work—for 10 straight minutes per hour of ...
Nikon D90 outed by USA Today (Update: Now official) (10)
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Filed under: Digital Cameras Sure, the Nikon D90 isn't going to be any huge surprise when it arrives at this point, but it looks like whatever ta-da moment Nikon had planned just got upstaged by USA Today, which is running its piece on the new cam just a little early, complete with quotes from Nikon's senior technical manager. Nothing we don't know about here: 12.1 megapixels, 3-inch Live View screen with HD video recording and ...
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Jaron said:
HD VIDEO. OMG.
Behind-the-Scenes Film Out, by Photographers Who Advance Tested Nikon D90 [D90] (6)
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Ok, so the much-rumored Nikon D90 is now official, but over at Chase Jarvis Photography they know all about the camera: they were asked to "test the bejeezus out of the Nikon D90 for weeks-on-end prior to anybody even knowing it existed." Armed with a bunch of D90s taped-up to disguise their identity they piggybacked testing the device on top of some commercial photo shoots, looking at the D-movie 720p video recording, IS03200 shooting, the ...
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Matthew Vaughan said:
Of course, I've only had my D80 for 5 or 6 months, and now this...
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Jaron said:
Okay. It's 720p. But apparently, it still does some limited audio. DOF in VIDEO!
Mozilla gives the passionates one with Ubiquity (57)
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Mozilla just ensured I won’t use IE8 because it released Ubiquity. What is it? It’s a box that lets you ask different questions and get answers. It’s sort of like search. But far more powerful. It’s not for non-passionate Internet users. They won’t get it. It takes some time to learn how to use this feature. (To get what I’m talking about when I use the term “passionate” you should see my previous rant about ...
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Peter said:
Watch the Vimeo video. Interesting.
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Jean-Baptiste said:
Checkez la video dont il parle
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Matt said:
Already been using this. Already think it's useful, and it will become more so as the community grows and new search operators are developed. I guess I'm "passionate".
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erbianchi said:
Beuhhh... je crois que je vais abandonner Safari
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Ricky said:
Whoa. That looks sweet.
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Jefferson Kim said:
Awesome.
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justin said:
ubiquity is going to change the world. and by "the" i mean "my". and by "is going to" i mean "has already started to". this is hot.
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Luís said:
Brutal... Aconselho o vídeo!
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blogan said:
I installed Ubiquity. Looks cool. Now I just need to figure out how to use it. :-)
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Jason Nielubowicz said:
If you use Firefox, and you should, you must try out Ubiquity!
Rubber Hand Trick Reveals Brain-Body Link (2)
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The rubber hand illusion is more than a vaguely creepy parlor trick. It's a window into relationship between our mental and physical self-conception. During the illusion, a participant's hand is hidden, and a rubber hand positioned so that it appears as her own. She knows that it's fake -- but when both hands are stroked simultaneously, what's seen and felt becomes blurred. Suddenly the rubber hand literally feels like it belongs to her. Consciously she ...
Prankster performs tricks on subway train and amusement park (16)
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Books: A Doctor Transformed, Into a Patient (2)
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Designing a better ballot (41)
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“How Design Can Save Democracy” is AIGA’s attempt to identify common design problems in election ballots and offer improvements. Problem (excerpt) Solution (excerpt) More details. Is it an improvement? Sure. But the real crime here is how terrible the original one is. Looks like a bunch of lawyers trying to figure out Quark. It’s tough to have much faith in your government’s ability to solve truly complicated challenges when it seems so inept at dealing ...
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iomegadrive said:
"VOTE FOR NOT MORE THAN ONE(1)"Hahaha, wow.
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Derick Valadao said:
They should take a lesson from Elections Canada:1. Names are in alphabetical order2. Put an "x" in the circle next to the name3. Give your ballot backSimple, gets the job done.
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rexy said:
I think that this is a very interesting design problem to solve.
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猫影 said:
还是我国的选票比较简单!
There’s No Free Lunch - Even At Google (24)
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Valleywag brings us a well researched insight into the dramatic situation in Google’s cafeterias. A culinary tragedy is brewing over there, friends, and I can almost hear the collective cry of Googlers as their selection of dishes shrinks. The rest of the world, of course, silently rejoices the fact that these flamboyant showoffs might soon be forced to eat the same plebeian meal as most of them: burger and coke. You can read the gory ...
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Jaron said:
The story's more complicated than the title. It seems (from the comments) that the dinner service was shut down at low-attendance building (such as HR and Marketing). Engineers work later. Hence, it makes sense to keep those dinner services open.
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alf said:
Ну вот :(
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Joannie said:
oh no mike!
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Hriday said:
oh! then i wont be joining it! :P :P :P
How To See In Four Dimensions (27)
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An anonymous reader writes "Think it's impossible to see four-dimensional objects? These videos will show you otherwise. Some mathematicians work with four-dimensional objects all the time, and they've developed some clever tricks to get a feeling for what they're like. The techniques begin by imagining how two-dimensional creatures, like those in Edwin Abbot's 'Flatland,' could get a feeling for three-dimensional objects. When those techniques are transferred up a dimension, the results are gorgeous."Read more of ...
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Jackyshadow said:
一帮数学家搞的Project，将四维空间的概念投射到三维空间中，换句话说，就是以数学为方法，以CG为手段，视觉化时间和时间与三位空间关系的概念。官方网站上提供整部纪录片的BT下载和FTP下载，包含中文字幕。
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Miguel A. Arévalo said:
Somos un cuadrado en un plano.
Composer Says Beijing Olympic Committee Ripped Him Off (7)
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Peter Breiner, arranger of more than 200 national anthems for the 2004 Olympics, is accusing the Beijing Olympic Committee of stealing those works for this year's Games. He says he is "100 percent sure" that his arrangements are being played at medal ceremonies -- and The Washington Post's culture critic couldn't agree more.
Marvelous Magazine Ads from 1904 (4)
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This post contains many scanned images. Click on any detail to see a larger version. I believe that one of the best ways to reduce spending is to limit your exposure to advertising. Marketers employ powerful persuasive techniques to circumvent our rational minds, encouraging us to spend our hard-earned money on things we don’t really need. This isn’t anything new. Advertising has been a pervasive part of American culture for more than a century. I ...
Leading Men (12)
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Leading indicators are measurements that change over time and suggest future trends for important second-order results like population growth and economic development. Economists in particular are often looking for indicators that have been known historically to lead the overall economy. If unemployment goes down, for example, it is a good bet that shortly thereafter income will rise and the economy will improve. It's for this very reason, then, that economists and Wall Street fund managers ...
